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Thom continues to read from the Mueller Investigation Report and the pages on malware hacking of the DDC and the DNC computers.
This segment starts at page 41.
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Thom continues to read from the Mueller Investigation Report and the pages on malware hacking of the DDC and the DNC computers.
This segment starts at page 41.
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Should the damage done to cities and towns from tornado, hurricanes and other extreme weather fueled by climate change be paid for the by the fossil fuel industries that are accelerating global climate change?
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Like most Republican legislation, there is always a corporation behind it, and the draconian abortion bans passed by Georgia and Alabama are no different.
Believe it or not, there are corporate sponsors funding the war on reproductive health, and we have their names.
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Congressman Mark Pocan reveals his thoughts on the possibility of Trump, John Bolton and other war hawks starting a war with Iran.
Will the Trump administration start a war with Iran?
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More on the GRU from the Mueller Investigation Report, read by Thom.
Starting on page 43.
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Can American Democracy survive in the age of Donald Trump?
Or will Americans soon have to face the end of our democracy and the start of strong man authoritarian rule?
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What happens if Trump is defeated in the 2020 elections but refuses to leave the White House?
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How can we deal with a lawless president especially when he is being enabled by a lawless attorney general and lawless Republican lawmakers in Congress?
Could all of this lawlessness end our democracy?
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Thom continues to read from the redacted Mueller Investigation Report and the GRU.
Starting from page 45.
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China is preparing for a trade war and Donald Trump is completely unprepared for it.
A tariff based protectionist trade policy would prevent the oncoming trade war with China but Donald Trump has no idea how to protect the country. Instead his sloppy trade policy could actually help China.
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Could the impeachment process be used to expose Donald Trump's crimes?
Congress could start the impeachment process and take away Trump's pardon powers, expand their powers to investigate Trump and even more.
So what are we waiting for?
Do you think it is time to impeach Trump?
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Do Revolutions happen from the bottom up?
Bernie Sanders talks about being a grassroots politician and frames his campaign as a bottom-up movement, even Democracy can be called bottom-up.
Rob Kall believes that smartphones and computers are helping people live in bottom-up ways but digital monopolies might be in our way!
Could working and organizing from a bottom-up perspective help us to be more democratic?
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The Bottom-up Revolution:
Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
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More from the Mueller Investigation Report, concentrating on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
Starting from page 48.
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Bernie Sanders believes that the fate of the American minimum wage worker is a national priority and joins the Thom Hartmann program to talk about legislation that will improve the lives of working people across America. The Workplace Democracy Act.
Bernie Sanders is responsible for mainstreaming ideas like a $15 minimum wage. The presidential hopeful wants to support striking minimum wage workers across the country as he continues the fight for a living wage.
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Medicare for all has more support and momentum now than at any other time in this country's history. Congressmember Pramila Jayapal joins the program to discuss the growing popularity of Medicare for all means for all of us.
Do you think Medicare for all can pass in the United States?
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What is Capitalism? We live in a capitalistic economy, we have a more or less democratic form of government, but what is democracy? As democratic socialism grows more popular it is necessary to look at exactly what we are talking about, to have a stronger understanding of it all.
Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom Hartmann for a deep dive into the often misunderstood definitions critical to our understanding of the world around us.
A look at economics in the broadest sense.
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Thom reads more from the Mueller Investigation Report, covering the targeting of elections.
Starting on page 50.
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Tariffs could help the country in a great way. But what we are seeing from the Trump administration is not a trade policy but a marketing campaign.
A corrupt President dictating tariff laws without forethought and planning could be a disaster and that is exactly what Donald Trump is doing.
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When did war become about profit instead of protecting the country?
We need to take our military back and stop lining the pockets of billionaires.
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Communism and Marxism are some of the most misunderstood political systems in the world.
Professor Richard Wolff joins the program today to shed some light on Communism and undo some of the miseducation about Marxism.
Does Communism sound more interesting after Wolff's explanation and would you consider becoming a communist now?
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What is rentier capitalism and how do those with wealth make more, by having YOU do the work, using their money? Making money as a rentier is how.
Rent-seeking behavior or rentier capitalism has been around for centuries. But what is it, and how does it work?
Economist Professor Richard Wolff joined Thom to explain.
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Tammy Burge put together some memes using the Mueller investigation report.
Thom reads some of them and concludes that Bill Barr lied about exoneration.
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Professor Richard Wolff concludes how to use other people's money to make money yourself and the history of being a rentier.
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Thom caller Peter go head-to-head on whether Trump is openly breaking the law.
And will Trump leave the White House if he loses the 2020 election?
How much is Trump hiding from the law?
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Highways and rivers - how well or badly are they maintained in modern America?
Planned infrastructure, or no planning at all?
Terry called the program and he and Thom discussed the state of our infrastructure.